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Tunis, Tunisie - 20 juin 2024 – ONU Femmes Tunisie et les Scouts Tunisiens ont marqué la fin de la campagne Nubader par une cérémonie de clôture, couronnant les efforts fournis dans le cadre du projet ambitieux intitulé "Promouvoir le leadership des femmes et des filles dans la réponse socioéconomique et sanitaire à la COVID-19 en Tunisie".
Call for Proposals for Civil Society Organizations on Women Political participation – Lebanon Office
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UN Women Lebanon Office welcomes proposals for partnerships to achieve results under its Women’s Political Participation Programme, with a specific focus to increase women's participation in and impact on decision-making in political and civic spaces.
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UN Women is re-advertising this CFP to partner with an organization to conduct.
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We should cooperate to improve the inclusion and participation of women with disabilities and migrant women workers, giving due attention to those with disabilities, throughout the Arab Region in the COVID-19 response and recovery measures.
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In the midst of a fragile political situation in Libya, where the simple tenets of governance are challenged by widespread insecurity, Halima Al Moghrabi—a young woman with a Masters’ degree in planning-- decided to become an active member in her local municipal council in the port city of Sidra.
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Salam Al-Alo, 27, sought refuge in Jordan in 2013. After working as a site supervisor at the UN Women Oasis Centre in Za’atari Refugee Camp, she continues to volunteer at the place that she believes helped her find herself.
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Haneen Rafe ‘Moh’d Zayed, 24 years old, who recently started working as a Data Analyst in the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship.
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Hosted from 15 to 17 March 2022, the Arab Forum for Sustainable Development (AFSD), is the primary regional mechanism for the follow up and review of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the Arab States region. The event is organized annually by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), in collaboration with the League of Arab States, UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States, and other regional UN entities.
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Gender inequality and the environmental crisis are the two greatest sustainable development challenges of our time. Climate change and COVID-19 have worsened existing inequalities world wide.
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On International Women’s Day, we celebrate the power and potential of women and girls. We recognize their courage, resilience and leadership. We mark the ways in which we are making progress towards a more gender-equal world.
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Older Syrian refugee women are struggling to find jobs amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As the sole provider of the family, Nawal Saed Mohammed, 60, is now able to work in a field she is passionate about, sharing her 45 years of experience in tailoring with other women at the UN Women Oasis Centre in the Za’atari refugee camp, and helping them to gain new skills, opportunities and economic independence with the support of the European Union through the Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian crisis, the Madad Fund.
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Press release Cairo -- Motivated by their shared goal to achieve stronger collaboration and better health for all, international development, health and humanitarian agencies in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East and North Africa Region convened today for the second annual meeting of the Regional Health Alliance (RHA), marking its first anniversary. Seeking to build on early successes, partner members of the RHA launched an ambitious joint action plan for 2022–2023 to...
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A roster of police middle-managers from Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia and Yemen participated in a training of trainers on gender-responsive police services for women and girls survivors of violence, from 06 to 08 December 2021.
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Lebanon is facing a convergence of political, economic and social crises, all exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. These crises are causing extraordinary human suffering across Lebanon and deepening gender inequalities and divides.
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Bringing together high-level representatives from national governments, academia, civil society and the private sector, UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States released today the Regional Report “Assessing macroeconomic response policies to COVID-19 in the Arab region: what implications for women’s economic empowerment?.”
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UN Women welcomes the formation of the new Government of Lebanon announced on September 10, 2021 as a necessary and important step in addressing the country’s deep economic crisis.
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UN Women Deputy Executive Director Anita Bhatia highlighted the important role innovative financing for gender equality and women’s empowerment plays in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda at Egypt’s global International Cooperation Forum.
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Roa’a Al-Fased, 14, is a member of the girls’ administrative board of Toward a Better Tomorrow Association (Nagat), a community-based organization that supports vulnerable women and girls in East Amman and Mafraq to access sexual and reproductive health services, while raising awareness on gender-based violence, with the support of the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund.
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The Arab Forum for Sustainable Development (AFSD), the primary regional mechanism for the follow up and review of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the Arab States region, was hosted virtually from 29 to 31 March 2021.
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On 8 July 2021, the 8th Ministerial Conference of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Women met in Egypt for a high-level exchange under the theme of ‘Preserving the Achievements of Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in Light of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Beyond’.